Israel kills two Palestinian minors amid raids across occupied West Bank

Two Palestinian teenage boys person been killed by Israeli forces successful the municipality of al-Khader, southbound of Bethlehem successful the occupied West Bank, according to the Wafa quality agency, successful the latest deadly unit successful the territory continuing successful tandem with Israel’s genocidal warfare connected Gaza.

The bodies of 15-year-old Ahmad Ali Asaad Ashira al-Salah and 17-year-old Muhammad Khaled Alian Issa, who were killed astatine dawn, were withheld by the Israeli army, the study said, adding that 2 much children were besides injured successful the gunfire.

The deadly incidental came arsenic Israeli forces arrested astatine slightest 25 Palestinians successful aggregate raids crossed the occupied West Bank, according to Wafa.

The arrests see 10 Palestinians successful the municipality of Beit Ummar, northbound of Hebron; 2 successful the municipality of Idhna, westbound of Hebron; 3 successful the municipality of Dura al-Qari, northbound of Ramallah; 1 successful the metropolis of Ramallah; 5 successful the colony of al-Mazraa ash-Sharqiya, eastbound of Ramallah; and 4 successful the metropolis of Nablus.

‘Making Palestinian lives impossible’

Since the commencement of the war connected Gaza, Israeli unit successful the occupied West Bank has escalated dramatically, with near-daily reports of wide arrests, killings and Israeli settler attacks, often supported by Israeli soldiers. Settlers person been rampaging with impunity, attacking and sidesplitting Palestinian civilians and burning their properties and olive groves.

According to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), astatine slightest 948 Palestinians person been killed successful the territory by Israeli soldiers since October 7, 2023. Of that figure, astatine slightest 204 are children.

Meanwhile, from the opening of 2024 until the extremity of June 2025, much than 2,200 Israeli settler attacks were reported, resulting successful much than 5,200 Palestinian injuries, according to OCHA figures. In that aforesaid period, astir 36,000 Palestinians were forcibly displaced crossed the occupied West Bank owed to Israeli subject operations, settler unit oregon location demolitions carried retired by the Israeli government.

The Israeli settler unit successful the occupied West Bank is portion of the Israeli government’s strategy for preventing the constitution of a Palestinian state, according to Amjad Abu El Ezz, a lecturer of planetary relations astatine the Arab American University.

The accrued fig of killings, and the demolition of Palestinian homes and vehicles by Israeli settlers successful coordination with the Israeli army, purpose to promote Palestinians to permission their land, Abu El Ezz told Al Jazeera from Ramallah.

Israel is weakening the governing Palestinian Authority, “making Palestinian lives impossible”, portion astatine the aforesaid clip “building Israeli facts connected the ground” to forestall the Palestinians from gathering their ain state, helium added.

“We are talking astir much than 700,000 Israeli settlers. They person weapons, they are acting arsenic an service successful parallel to the Israeli army,” Abu El Ezz said.

On Wednesday, Israel’s parliament approved a symbolic measurement calling for the annexation of the occupied West Bank.

Knesset lawmakers voted 71-13 successful favour of the question connected Wednesday, a non-binding ballot which calls for “applying Israeli sovereignty to Judea, Samaria and the Jordan Valley” – the Israeli presumption for the area.

The motion, precocious by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition, is declarative and has nary nonstop ineligible implications, though it could spot the contented of annexation connected the docket of aboriginal debates successful the parliament.

The Palestinian Mujahideen Movement has called the Israeli parliament’s non-binding ballot connected the annexation of the occupied West Bank a “dangerous escalation”.

In a connection connected Telegram, the radical said the determination was a “clear disregard for the planetary community” and a mode for Israel to instrumentality “its transgression plans targeting the onshore of Palestine and its people”.

The West Bank, on with the Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem, has been nether Israeli concern since 1967. Since then, Israeli settlements person expanded exponentially, contempt being amerciable nether planetary instrumentality and, successful the lawsuit of colony outposts, Israeli law.

Source:

Al Jazeera and quality agencies